Those aren't mutually exclusive. Even after this exchange, CNN continues to push their fictional news that Trump called for Russia to hack into US state secrets.
CAMEROTA: You say that Putin is pushing us around. That's not how Donald Trump frames it. He seems to have been somewhat complimentary towards Putin's leadership. And as you know, yesterday, he seemed to invite Russia to hack into Hillary Clinton's e-mails. What did you think when you heard him say that?CNN New day - July 28, 2016GIULIANI: Well, first of all, I know what he meant when he said it, because I got a call from his campaign manager.
CUOMO: Was it your idea that he say that?
GIULIANI: No. He was telling a joke. When he got off the plane, he tweeted out, the e-mails should be sent to the FBI. He was joking around. Now, let's analyze this for a minute. According to Hillary Clinton, if she's telling the truth, which 65 percent of the American people believe she's incapable of, but if she's telling the truth, there's nothing on those e-mails that has anything do with national security. This is the stuff she destroyed.
CUOMO: Right.
GIULIANI: It's all about Chelsea's dress, her recipes.
CUOMO: Right. So what's the point there?
GIULIANI: The point there is, there's no national security implication to any of it. Second, it doesn't exist.
CAMEROTA: Yes.
GIULIANI: Third, I will - I will be willing to give you a 98 percent guarantee the Russians already have it.
CAMEROTA: But isn't the point that Americans don't know when Donald Trump is joking.
These people are mentally defective (stupid), dishonest, and manipulative.
Cuomo asks "what's the point" just after Giuliani tells him the point is that "nothing on those e-mails that has anything do with national security." And then in conclusion, the point changes, totally, to the next phony outrage. "But isn't the point that Americans don't know when Donald Trump is joking."
The media work environment is loaded with mental defectives. They flock together, they are like-minded.
Rudy Giuliani has hit on a very important point here. Democrats have been adamant all along that the Russians never hacked Hillary’s private email server. They have also defended her contention that there was nothing on those 33,000 emails except discussions about Chelsea’s wedding, yoga classes, and her mother’s funeral. If that’s true, then what are the Democrats worried about? According to them, the server was never hacked, and there was noting related to national security on the deleted emails. Why, then, are they so afraid those emails may turn up after all?